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docs: project README, changelog, and M0 marked done
The README leads with the thing that is actually different about this app
rather than burying it: Calendula and Agendula front standards someone else
maintains, and Clockula cannot, because there is no open provider behind a
clock. Saying so plainly is better than implying a thesis the app does not
meet — and the three things that replace it (the AlarmClock contract, IANA
zones, an exportable format) are real commitments, not consolation.

CONTRIBUTING's scope section now names the trade this project will not make:
nothing ships that buys a feature by making an alarm less certain to ring.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01L94fydiJC37LtxVusNQBDy
2026-09-11 11:47:23 +02:00

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Clockula — roadmap

The status view, and the work queue. Design rationale for every decision here lives in PLAN.md; the shape of the code as it stands will live in ARCHITECTURE.md from M2 onward.

Status legend: done · 🚧 in progress · not started


Current state (one line)

M0 done. The project builds, installs and shows a themed placeholder; floret-kit is wired in as a composite build, the identity is seeded, and the full Codeberg-canonical release pipeline is in place. M1 (the core-prefs + core-di extraction into floret-kit) is next.


How the loop works through this

One milestone per iteration, auto-continuing. Each iteration:

  1. Pick the first milestone not marked .
  2. Implement it completely — every checklist item under it.
  3. Build, and run the tests the milestone names. A milestone is not done until they pass.
  4. Commit (floret-kit submodule first where it changed, then Clockula's pointer bump — separate commits, granular, lowercase area prefix).
  5. Mark the milestone here, update Current state, and commit that too.
  6. Continue to the next milestone.

Rules that hold across every iteration:

  • Never let a Room entity or @Query string leak above the data layer (PLAN.md §0).
  • Never add a foojay toolchain resolver, anywhere, not even in a comment.
  • Commit each finished unit of work; never accumulate a WIP pile.
  • If a milestone turns out to be wrong, say so and amend PLAN.md — do not silently build something else.
  • ARCHITECTURE.md and CHANGELOG.md are updated as part of the milestone that changes them, not in a later cleanup pass.

v1 milestones

M0 — Skeleton & pipeline

The project exists, builds, is themed, and ships itself.

  • Gradle project: settings.gradle.kts, version catalog copied from Agendula (drop :provider, add Room + KSP), AGP 9.x conventions, vcsInfo off on release, no foojay resolver.

  • floret-kit as a git submodule + includeBuild, with the gitignored floret-kit/local.properties arrangement documented.

  • Hilt, Compose, MainActivity, FloretExpressiveTheme reseeded to #6B7A5C (ui/theme/Color.kt + Theme.kt), hand-tuned light/dark schemes.

  • core-crash wired; core-locale + res/xml/locales_config.xml.

  • Codeberg repo, canonical from the first commit. Full pipeline per PLAN.md §10: ci.yaml, translations.yaml, release.yaml (Agendula spine + Calendula play job), renovate.yml, issue/PR templates, F-Droid metadata, fastlane tree.

  • README.md, LICENSE (MIT), CHANGELOG.md, .editorconfig, .gitattributes, .gitignore, docs/README.md index.

  • Done when: it builds, installs, shows a themed placeholder, and CI is green.

    assembleDebug, lintDebug and testDebugUnitTest all pass; scripts/check_reproducible_release.sh reports every invariant holding. Two notes for later: the store listing and fastlane changelogs are written but no screenshots exist yet (M11), and docs/ARCHITECTURE.md is still unwritten by design — M2 writes it, once there is an architecture to describe.

M1 — floret-kit: core-prefs + core-di

Pay the extraction the kit's roadmap has been waiting for a third app to trigger.

  • In the kit: core-prefs (ThemeMode, dynamicColor, typed DataStore wrapper, toEnum()) and core-di (@IoDispatcher + provider), each with tests, module docs, CHANGELOG and ROADMAP/ARCHITECTURE updates.
  • Clockula consumes both. Migrating Calendula and Agendula is explicitly out of scope — note it in the kit's roadmap as a follow-up.
  • Done when: the kit's tests pass, Clockula builds against the new modules, and both repos are committed (submodule first, then the pointer bump).

M2 — Data layer

The whole storage stack, headless. No UI.

  • Room: alarms, timers, world_clocks, stopwatch_laps (PLAN.md §5), schema exported and committed, DAOs.
  • Domain models (plain Kotlin) + mappers. Repositories exposing Flows.
  • DataStore prefs (theme, dynamic colour, defaults, stopwatch running state).
  • DI modules.
  • Tests: mappers, repository behaviour, the elapsed-realtime vs wall-clock distinction under a simulated clock change.
  • Write the first ARCHITECTURE.md.

M3 — Alarm engine

The hard part (PLAN.md §4), still headless apart from the ring screen's plumbing.

  • Next-fire resolution: local time-of-day + repeat mask → next instant in the device zone; skipNextOccurrence; snooze.
  • AlarmScheduler over setAlarmClock, single-next-alarm registration, USE_EXACT_ALARM with a SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM fallback path.
  • Receivers: fire, BOOT_COMPLETED, TIME_SET, TIMEZONE_CHANGED, MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED.
  • Ringing foreground service: audio focus, USAGE_ALARM, volume ramp, vibration, ringtone URIs; survives process death and reboot mid-ring.
  • Full-screen-intent notification + canUseFullScreenIntent() handling, degrading to a high-priority heads-up notification that still rings — never to silence.
  • Tests: DST spring-forward and fall-back, every repeat configuration, skip, snooze-vs-next-occurrence. These are the tests the app lives or dies on.

M4 — App shell

  • Navigation host, four tabs, M3 navigation bar, adaptive rail on wide layouts.
  • The live pill (PLAN.md §9) — shared running-state surface, pause + stop from any tab.
  • The ring screen UI: over-lockscreen, turn-screen-on, snooze/dismiss, optional dismiss challenge that cannot strand the user.
  • Motion from the kit's identity module; predictive back.

M5 — Alarms screen

List, create, edit, delete, enable/disable. Time picker, repeat-day selector, label, ringtone picker, vibrate, snooze settings, per-alarm overrides. Next-fire line ("in 9h 12m") on each row. Built on GroupedSurface/GroupedRow.

M6 — Timers

Multiple concurrent timers, presets, labels, add/pause/reset/+1min. Foreground service with notification controls, expiry ringing reusing M3's audio path. Elapsed-realtime anchored.

M7 — Stopwatch

Start/stop/reset, laps with splits and cumulative times, best/worst lap emphasis. Foreground service so it survives backgrounding; laps persist across process death. This is where the big-readout typography gets settled for the whole app.

M8 — World clock

IANA zone list with search, ICU-localised city and zone display names, offset and day-difference relative to home, reorder, home-zone handling. The analog face built from MaterialShapes / androidx.graphics.shapes — the app's one deliberate showpiece.

M9 — System interop

The full android.provider.AlarmClock contract (PLAN.md §6): SET_ALARM, SET_TIMER, SHOW_ALARMS, SHOW_TIMERS, DISMISS_ALARM, SNOOZE_ALARM, plus next-alarm publishing. Hostile-input validation at the intent boundary.

  • Tests: extra validation, including malformed and out-of-range input.

M10 — Settings, backup, and the self-check

  • Settings composed from kit components: theme, dynamic colour, language, alarm/timer/clock defaults, about + crash reporting.
  • JSON backup export/import via SAF (PLAN.md §7), schema documented in the repo.
  • The "why might my alarm not ring?" self-check screen (PLAN.md §4) — real device state, deep links to the exact settings pages.
  • Tests: backup round-trip and unknown-field tolerance.

M11 — Release readiness

Translations wired to Weblate, fastlane metadata and screenshots, F-Droid reproducibility guard verified against the submodule, instrumentation smoke tests, accessibility pass (TalkBack on the ring screen especially), on-device reliability soak across a few real nights. Then 1.0.0.


Post-v1

Deferred deliberately, in rough priority order:

  • Dock / screensaver mode — a DreamService full-screen clock. Cheapest big win, and the surface people look at most.
  • Glance home-screen widget — next alarm and running timer.
  • Quick Settings tile — timer control and next alarm from the shade.
  • Bedtime / sleep schedule — wind-down and wake, with DND handoff. A feature in its own right, realistically v2.
  • core-notification in floret-kit — revisit once Clockula's real notification surface is known (PLAN.md §3).
  • Migrate Calendula and Agendula onto core-prefs + core-di — tracked in the kit's roadmap, not here.
  • Wear OS companion — unscoped.